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A former US Marine working as a volunteer medic in Ukraine was killed while evacuating civilians from Bakhmut in the east of the country.
Pete Reed, 33, died on February 2 after his ambulance was struck by a missile while he was evacuating people from the besieged city, which has become a focus of Putin's efforts.
It happened as another evacuation team near Reed's came under attack, requiring his team to respond and render aid, his wife Alex Potter told the Washington Post.
Reed served two deployments as a Marine rifleman in Afghanistan and started the nonprofit Global Response Medicine with Potter in 2017.
He is one of at least seven Americans to have died in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Pete Reed, 33, died on February 2 after his ambulance was struck by a missile while he was evacuating people from the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine
Reed served two deployments as a Marine rifleman in Afghanistan and started the nonprofit Global Response Medicine with his wife in 2017
'My husband Pete Reed was killed yesterday in Bakhmut, Ukraine. He was evacuating civilians and responding to those wounded when his ambulance was shelled,' wrote Potter on social media on Friday.
'He died doing what he was great at, what gave him life, and what he loved, and apparently by saving a team member with his own body,' she added.
His death came just a month after a deployment in Ukraine to work with Global Outreach Doctors as its Ukraine Country Director.
'In January, Pete stepped away from GRM to work with Global Outreach Doctors on their Ukraine mission and was killed while rendering aid,' the NGO said. 'Pete was the bedrock of GRM, serving as Board President for 4 years.'
Reed joined the Marine Corps in September 2007 after his 18th birthday. As an infantryman he was deployed twice over the next four years to Afghanistan's Helmand province, the Washington Post reported.
He was based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and earned a combat action ribbon indicating he came under hostile fire
